Go ahead waste your vote! Vote for a third-party candidate!

The up coming election reminds me of this episode of the Simpsons.

While fishing, Homer is abducted by the aliens Kang and Kodos. When they demand that Homer point them towards Earth's leader, Homer tells them about the then-upcoming election and that the winner could be either Bill Clinton or Bob Dole. Kang and Kodos kidnap both Dole and Clinton, placing them in suspended animation tubes. Kang and Kodos take on their forms to ensure that one of them will become the next leader. The aliens soak Homer in rum and return him to Earth and nobody believes him. Later on, Homer stumbles upon the badly hidden spaceship and tries to save the real Dole and Clinton, however he accidentally ejects them into space. On the day before the election, Homer successfully reveals the candidates' real identities. Realizing it is too late to get new candidates, one man in the crowd decides to vote for a third-party candidate. However, Kang and Kodos convince the crowd that doing so would be a wasted vote. Kang is elected President and forces the citizens of America to build a giant ray gun to aim at another planet.


For those people out there contemplating their vote. The answer is easy. It is a win-win situation. Elect Barack and you have the first black president. Elect McCain and you have the first woman VP. We all know that with McCains' great experience comes great "age." He could die in office. Which hasn't happened since Franklin D. Roosevelt. I am not counting JFK as he was assassinated. Then BAM! You've got the first woman President.


Barriers will be broken down anyway you look at it. Change is going to happen either way. Barack may make a bigger change than McCain, but you never know he could keel over and leave Palin in charge. Anyone else think she looks like Tina Fey?

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